On-call subways offer excellent urban transit service at low hourly route demands, but they cannot handle peak loads in large cities within the usually assumed constraints on headway and station investment cost. A concept is presented that circumvents these constraints by innovative design of a cable driven vehicle network, thereby making on-call subway systems competitive with scheduled trains for all classes of urban and suburban service. Such systems can comfortably transport 10,000 passengers per hour per line with attractively low trip times and station investment costs no higher than those of much lower capacity conventional systems.


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